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Aenas with wife/Sow and seven piglets30 viewsFantasy piece, cast, Balkans or Northern Greece, 18th-19th century. The weight can be up to 125 g. Mentioned in Svoronos' article.
Obv: Sow with seven piglets, N dot dot M above.
Rev: Nonsensical legend OTΡTΔKbω and ligate TE. Svoronos suggested that the confronted heads were those of Aeneas, helmeted, right and Lavinia, the wife of Aeneas, left.
See Numismatics International Bulletin, Vol. 33, No.3 for a discussion of this type
(https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/522752?page=11) and following pages.helvetica
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Athens Dekadrachm silver replica459 viewsSilver replica of the very rare Dekadrachm which was minted approx. 465 BC.
Head of Athena right wearing crested helmet
A Theta E around owl standing facing, wings spread, within incuse square
Weight 32.7g, 33 mm diameter
99.9% silver replica, made in June 2007.
Sold on ebay in July 2007 as a silver replica.
Note: The "broken" area at the back of Athena's head is the same on all of the coins of this series of silver replicas.
Submitted by Helveticahelvetica
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Attica, Athens267 views(the information sent to me was possibly copied from another source):
"ATTICA, Athens. Circa 469/5-460 BC. AR Dekadrachm
(approx. 42 g). Head of Athena right, wearing single-pendant earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / A-Q-E, owl standing facing, wings spread; olive sprig.
Sent to me at wildwinds asking whether we would like to buy it and asking for an offer (I told him $20).
The object shows all the traces and signs of casting, the owls feet, Athena's crest, spare blobs of metal all over the place and those ominous black patches so often seen on cast fakes.helvetica
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Justinian I Fake Solidus148 viewsFake of SB 139, 288, 328 etc.
D N IVSTINI-ANVS P P AVG, helmeted and cuirassed facing bust, holding cross on globe and shield decorated with horseman / VICTORI-A AVGGG and officina letter, angel standing facing, holding long cross and cross on globe; (should have a star in right field.) Mintmark CONOB.
This fake has a dot instead of a star in the right field. The bust is very childishly copied, the neck too long, the plume on his helmet is very basic, the name is misspelled (IVISTINI instead of IVSTINI) the metal is too smooth and the entire coin has a very dodgy appearance.
It was sent to me at wildwinds by someone from the middle east asking whether it was genuine. He stated that it was gold and weighed 4.3 gr.
helvetica
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Kings Of Baktria, Eukratides I AR Drachm32 viewsObverse: Helmeted, diademed, and draped bust right.
Reverse: BASILEWS MEGALOU EUKRATIDOU, the Dioskouroi on horses rearing right; monogram to right.
Weight: ? grams Size: 18 mm
Cast FakeArados
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Maurice Tiberius Forgery Sear F23138 viewsDescribed as a gold solidus, weighing 3.7 gr this coin was sent to Wildwinds for identification.
The obverse type and reverse type were - on genuine coins -. used about 200 years apart. This fake is published as forgery type F23 in Sear. It was ceated before 1974.
The obverse imitates solidi of Tiberius II Constantinus, the legend is blundered to oMIIbIONS T_OTPPAVI instead of dMTIbCONS TANTPPAVI. The beading on the obverse only goes halfway around the flan.
- This Concordia type (with Constantinopolis holding Victory) was used e.g. for Honorius and Arcadius, but only together with either a diademed bust right, or with the helmeted bust of the emperor facing, holding a spear over his shoulder.
- The globe on which the cross is placed is very badly engraved which makes is look as though the person who made this coin did not know what he was doing.
- There is no I in CONCORDIA.
- The star in the left field is very badly made.
- The figure of Victory held by Constantinopolis is atrocious with no facial details, just a square for the body and what appear to be three legs.
- the mintmark is completely fake - it should be CONOB or COMOB. There is no mintmark CONVV of any mint for any coin of any emperor.
Probably a highly polished brass or copper modern tourist fake.
[submitted by Helvetica, Oct. 2011]helvetica
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Plaetoria Denarius65 viewsFake Plaetoria 4 denarius.
OBVERSE:
- The obverse legend has a letter missing (it should be CESTIANVS on the left, this coin has CETIANVS.
- The lettering is very flat
- The person who made the coin forgot to engrave her wing - this person (Vacuna) has the attributes of five deities - Minerva (helmet), Isis (lotos), Apollo (laurels), Victory (wings and cornucopiae) and Diana (quiver behind shoulder). The person who made this coin did not understand what exactly he was copying so missed out many of the details of these attributes or missed the attribute entirely.
- The small lotos blossum on the top front of her helmet is incorrectly engraved, like an odd V instead of a lotus.
- The branch to the right of the lotus is just a curved line instead of a clear branch.
- There are no clear lines for the neckline and drapery.
- The lips and general attitude of the face are wrong.
- The dreadlocks at the side of her head are just blobs with no detail of hair strands.
- There is no dot between the S and the C.
- The cornucopiae at bottom right is poorly rendered.
- The back of her helmet's crest is too close to the helmet and the base of the crest is incorrect.
etc.
REVERSE
- The thunderbolt centre line has been made as just a row of dots. It should be a line with dots on it, like -o-o-o-o- or a plain line.
- The last ET of the M PLAET beneath the eagle are incorrectly engraved and their tops are merged with the exergual line.
- The wing feathers are very poorly rendered with the dots just floating about and not attached to feathers.
- The neck is too long and scrawny and the head is incorrect.
OVERALL
- It appears to be a silvered bronze or copper coin. At the back of the bowl of her helmet, on about the same level as her eyebrow, there is a section of goldeny brown peeping through - could be the copper core.
A genuine coin of this type with this reverse legend break (three different legend breaks are recorded) is the second coin on the image.
The image of the fake coin was sent to me at my wildwinds address for my opinion.
Helvetica.
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Roma with kneeling bowman75 viewsA fantasy object never made as a genuine coin with this obverse and reverse. The original "archer kneeling right" coins were made only by Greek mints in silver and gold, not in bronze. Furthermore the original types were made around 425 BC, long before Rome became great enough to conquer areas of Greece. The helmeted head of Roma, with ROMA.. legends on coins was primarily used on denarii of Republican times (but not with this reverse) and later, in the 4th century AD for the wolf and twins types (but Roma bust left) to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the city of Rome.
Sent to wildwinds for identification.
Submitted by Helveticahelvetica
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